Aji Hélène (ENS Ulm, PSL) 

Hélène AJI is Professor of American Literature at l’École normale supérieure (Ulm PSL), head of the research unit UAR 3608 "République des Savoirs" and vice-president of the Institute of the Americas. She was a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin, the University of Chicago, the Université libre de Bruxelles and, a regular visiting professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the author of three volumes and many articles on modernist and contemporary U.S. poetry. With Paul-Henri Giraud (Université de Lille), she conducts the research project "RELAAXX: revues littéraires et artistiques dans les Amériques au XX^e siècle". With Agnès Derail and Clément Oudart, she has just collected texts around T.S. Eliot's poems in a small volume, T.S. Eliot Agoniste, published by the Presses Rue d’Ulm.

Bouvet Rachel (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Rachel BOUVET is Professor at the departement of literature studies at the Université of Quebec, Montreal. She is a member of the research center FIGURA. Her research interest focuses on space, the fantastic, geopoetics and the vegetal. After having written on spaces and places in literature, grounding her work in a geopoetic approach, she is now very much interested in the relationship between literature and botany. She is the co-founder of the research group La Traversée – Atelier de géopoétique, and of GRIVE (an interdisciplinary research group on the vegetal and the environment). She has written and co-edited a dozen volumes, including one with Kenneth White, Le Nouveau territoire. L'exploration géopoétique de l'espace (2008) and her last one, co-directed with Stéphanie Posthumus, Mouvantes et émouvantes. Les plantes à travers le récit (Presses universitaires de Montréal, 2024). 

Brodziak Sylvie (Cergy Paris Université / UMR 9022-Héritages)

Sylvie BRODZIAK is Professor Emerita of French and Francophone Literature and History of Ideas at CY Cergy Paris université, a member of the research unit UMR-CNRS Héritages. She has Ph.D.s. in contemporary history, and in French language and literature. Her research develops around how so-called minor or marginal individuals or groups express themselves, with a focus on Francophone literatures, the writing of history and memoirs, gender studies, eco and geopoetics, and artistic and literary creation after the great historical, industrial and natural catastrophes. She has published extensively. Among her most recent publications:

• Sylvie Brodziak, Hélène Manuelian, Damien Masson (dir.), Crise climatique et Sciences Humaines, Editions Effigi, La recherche en actes, 2023

• Sylvie Brodziak, "Crise climatique et récit littéraire. Conversation imaginaire avec Amitav Ghosh" in Sylvie Brodziak, Hélène Manuelian, Damien Masson (dir.), Crise climatique et Sciences Humaines, Editions Effigi, La recherche en actes, 2023

• Sylvie Brodziak, "Littérature et crise environnementale, Autour d'Eva de Louis Hamelin, fable géo-poétique en Abitibi (Québec)" in La crise dans tous ses états, regards critiques, Laure Lévêque, Simone Visciola, Cecile Bastidon-Giulles, Delphine Van Hoorebeke (dir.), Arcidosso, Effigi, coll. "La Recherche en Actes", 2023, p. 255.267

• Sylvie Brodziak, "L'écriture pionnière de 'l'éthique de la terre' dans Bêtes de la Brousse de René Maran" in René Maran, Cent ans après Batouala, Charles Scheel et Mamadou Bâ (dir.), Archipélies numéro 14, 2022.

• "Pour une lecture éco-poétique de Boum et Dog de René Maran" in Continents manuscrits, Génétique des textes littéraires--Afrique, Caraïbe, diaspora.  Numéro René Maran. Xavier Luce et Claire Riffard (dir.), 2021.

Champoux Williams Suzanne (Université de Sherbrooke)

Originally from Bernières, Suzanne CHAMPOUX WILLIAMS is a writer, artist and hiker. Living in Quebec and studying at the University of Sherbrooke where she pursues a doctorate in research creation, Suzanne finds the "imponderable balance" at the edges of fields of study. Her interdisciplinary practice unites nonfiction and poetry writing with visual arts, mainly watercolours. She is fascinated by the subtle language of simple things; her creative and research interests range from the representations of reality –- of nature and inner landscapes -– to the narrative impossibilities of present moment writing. Having recently completed her artist’s book Le ventre des galets (Pebble Bellies), Suzanne is working on her doctorate on exploration storytelling and therapeutic creative writing, and on a nomadic creative writing project that will take her across the mountains of Scotland.

Deslauriers Camille (Université du Québec à Rimouski)

Camille DESLAURIERS (Ph.D., Université de Sherbrooke) is Professor of creative writing at the Department of Lettres et humanités at the University of Québec at Rimouski (Québec, Canada) and a member of the editorial collective XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle. She published three volumes of short stories: Femme-Boa (L’instant même, 2005); Eaux troubles et autres embruns (L’instant même, 2021, éd. augmentée; 2011, éd. originale; Prix littéraire des enseignants ANEL - AQPF 2012, catégorie "Nouvelles") and Les ovaires, l’hypothalamus et le cœur (Hamac, 2018). And co-directed two collective volumes: Ce que je sais des berges (2023), La Pleine Lune et Mailler les eaux (Éditions de l’écume, 2022). She is the head of the BREF (Bureau de recherche-création sur les espaces fragmentés, UQAR). She participated in several recent interdisciplinary research projects on the Saint Lawrence River with scientific, artistic and literary teams, among which: L’Expédition Bleue: Golfe du Saint-Laurent (2022) and L’Expédition Bleue: Saguenay – Saint-Laurent (2024). She frequently reads her work in public and participated in two shows from a interartistic perspective: Fantômes de la Pointe et Passion déchets.

Deslauriers Rosaline (Université Laval, conteuse, musicienne et metteuse en scène) 

Rosaline DESLAURIERS holds a high school diploma, scupture major (2018: UQTR), a M.A. on the correspondances in Henri Michaux's visual and literary work (2001: UQTR). She then enrolls in drama studies, where she questions the notion of musical theater, and develops a poeisis allowing to think the stage "in action", on the creation field (2003: M.A. and 2010: Ph.D. at the U. of Laval/EHESS). After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the EHESS (2012) and having performed as a comedian, musician and clown (Théâtre du Lierre, Cie des Artisans, JoueÔtour, Corrossol, cirque Max & Maurice), she elects the art of storytelling, but from an interdisciplinary perspective (Jefca, Fonds d’art contemporain de la ville de Paris, Bal de St-Bonnet/Musée du Quai Branly/Musée national de la Marine, etc). Stage direction is also central in her research since 2021. She created and stage-directed acrobatic tales (2021: Mlle Mandoline, le retour; 2023: Le violon ensorcelé), and literary shows staging dancers, historians, literature specifialists, musicians or reseachers (2022: La canne, le quêteux et la pierre de tempêtes; 2023: Fantômes de la Pointe; 2023: Jeanne Mance ou l’en deçà d’un rêve; 2024: Passion déchets). Living between two jobs and two cultures is her means to move on.

Gautier Virginie (Chercheuse associée UMR 9022-Héritages)

Virginie GAUTIER is a writer, she is published at éditions du Chemin de Fer, at éditions Nous et Publie.net. She defended her Ph.D. in Practice and theory of creative writing in 2019. The title of her Ph.D. was "Poïétique du déplacement, de l’espace traversé à la traversée de l’écriture," a Ph.D. codirected by V. Houdart-Merot and S. Bouquet. She teaches creative writing at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (CY) and runs workshops in various teaching and training places. She is an associate researcher at the l’UMR 9022 Héritages.

Halloran Eloi (Collège régional Champlain)

Éloi HALLORAN is an independant researcher. He teaches sociology at Champlain Regional College (Quebec) and works in an organization of popular education. He collaborates with the online journal Ouvrage, with the artist collective MAS and participates in different political actions. His theoretical thoughts is shaped at the crossroads of decolonial ecology, marxist feminism, operaism and schizoanalysis. He published in several journals: Chimères, Contretemps et Viewpoint.

Kockel Ullrich (Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands)

Ullrich KOCKEL is Professor of Creative Ethnology at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. He taught at Leeds Polytechnic and University College Galway before receiving his PhD from the University of Liverpool, where he was appointed to the first-ever full-time post in Irish Studies at a British university. Ullrich also taught Geography at University College Cork and held chairs in European Studies (University of the West of England, Bristol), Ethnology and Folklife (University of Ulster at Magee), and Cultural Ecology and Sustainability (Heriot-Watt University). A Visiting Professor at the Center for Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania, and the Latvian Academy of Culture, he was President of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), 2008-13, when he established the SIEF Place Wisdom Working Group, inspired by Kenneth White's geopoetics. From 2006-18, he was editor-in-chief of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, and since 2017 he is a council member of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.

He published, edited or directed a dozen volumes and about thirty articles. To list but a few:

• Ullrich Kockel, Philip McDermott, and Liam Campbell (eds), Per scribendum, sumus: Ethnopoesis, or: Writing Heritage. A Cèilidh in Honour of Mairéad Nic Craith. Lit 2020. 280p.
• Ullrich Kockel: "Kenneth White, 'A Shaman Dancing on the Glacier'." In: Ulrich Marzolph (ed.), Reading Matters. Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2023, 205-9.
• Ullrich Kockel: "Adaptive Modernism and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of a New Scotland." Culture Crossroads 19, 2021, 8-26
• Ullrich Kockel and Mairi McFadyen: "On the Carrying Stream into the European Mountain: Roots and routes of creative (Scottish) ethnology." ANUAC 8(2), 2019, 189-211. 

Kocot Monika (University of Lodz)

Monika KOCOT, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author of Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing (2016) and co-editor of Języki (pop)kultury w literaturze, mediach i filmie (2015), Nie tylko Ishiguro. Szkice o literaturze anglojęzycznej w Polsce (2019), and Moving Between Modes. Papers in Intersemiotic Translation. In Memoriam Professor Alina Kwiatkowska (2020). She has published articles on contemporary Scottish poetry and prose, as well as Native American writing. Her latest research is on philosophy and spirituality in literature, with a particular emphasis on geopoetics and comparative literature. She is a member of the Association for Cultural Studies, the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. She is the Vice President of The K.K. Baczynski Literary Society. 

Lamandé Sylvie (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès / ED ALLPH@ / UR Lara-Seppia)

A Ph.D. student in Plastic Arts at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, a member of the doctoral school ED Allph@, of the research unit UR Lara-Seppia, Sylvie LAMANDE is working on a thesis in research creation under the title "Parcours textiles-Lieux d’utopies. Entrelacer, crocheter, assembler, coudre, une gestuelle adossée à l’art textile. Matérialisation d’une posture résistante et engagée pour une figuration du monde comme jardin d’utopies." She presented her research on two previous occasions in 2024: "Parcours te tiles, lieux d’utopies : pour un paysage repensé" (23-24 May 2024, UT2J),"D’une activité domestique, artisanale et féminine à une démarche de création engagée et émancipatrice. L’art textile en question"  (18 Septembre 2024, Université Clermont Auvergne).

Le Brech Goulven (Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine, IMEC)

Goulven LE BRECH is the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Imec) collections associate director. He is the French representative of the Powys Society (Great Britain) and editor in chief of the Cahiers Jules Lequier. He is also the author of two published volumes Little Blue Books (L’échappée, 2023) and Échappées océanes (Petit Pavé, 2019), and coordinated with Laurent Margantin a forthcoming volume En chemin avec Kenneth White avec Laurent Margantin, to be published at éditions Tarmac.

Mougeot Damien (Cergy Paris Université / UMR 9022-Héritages)

Damien MOUGEOT is currently a second year Ph.D. student in French and comparative literature under the supervision of Professor Anne-Marie Petitjean at the UMR Héritages 9022 of CY Cergy Paris Université. His thesis is entitled "The literature of French-language residential schools for Indigenous peoples in Quebec." His reflections and research interests focus on the literature of residential schools in Quebec, on Indigenous writings of trauma, on notions of survival and resurgence, and on decolonial studies.
Two articles are awaiting publication : "Les politiques assimilationnistes dans les pensionnats pour autochtones: Champion et Ooneemeetoo de Tomson Highway et Jeu Blanc de Richard Wagamese’ and "Joséphine Bacon et Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, les gardiennes de la langue innu." He is also a contributor to the research notebook "Indigenous literature (America - Australia)," supervised by Cécile Brochard, lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Nantes. Finally, he is currently collaborating with Richard Compton, full professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and holder of the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Knowledge and Transmission of the Inuit Language, to co-write an article on the linguistic genocide of Indigenous people in Quebec for the Atlas of Aboriginal Peoples.

Pacini Peggy (Cergy Paris Université / UMR 9022-Héritages) 

Peggy PACINI is Associate Professor of American Literature at CY Cergy Paris Université. Her main research fields are the Beat Generation (especially Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, ruth weiss, Diane di Prima), the collaborations between visual artists and poets of the Beat circle on the West Coast (1950s-1960s), and poetry and performance. She published several articles on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, ruth weiss and the French reception of the Beat Generation; and translated The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (Gallimard). 

Peloux Gérald (INALCO / UMR 8043–IFRAE / CRCAO)

Gérald PELOUX is Professor of Japanese literature at the Inalco (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales), a member of the research unit UMR IFRAE (Institut français de recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est) and an associate member of the CRCAO (Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale). His research focuses mainly on 20^th century genre literatures (detective, humor) and on the Ainu literature in Japanese language. With Cécile Sakai (Université Paris Cité) he co-directed the volume Edogawa Ranpo, les méandres du roman policier au Japon (2018) and, with Yannick Bardy (Université de Lille) and Pauline Cherrier (Aix-Marseille Université) Japon Pluriel 14 : résistances, conflits et réconciliations (2022). He is currently finishing a monography on the cosmopolite work of the writer Tani Jôji, of whom he translated a selection of his American short stories, Chroniques d’un trimardeur japonais en Amérique, a volume published in 2019 by the Belles Lettres.

Penot-Lacassagne Olivier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / UMR THALIM)

Olivier PENOT-LACASSAGNE is Associate Professor HDR at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, a specialist of Antonin Artaud's work, of the avant-gardes, the contre-cultures and of ecocriticism. His most recent publications are : (In)actualité du surréalisme (Les Presses du réel, 2022); Le Roman critique d’Artaud le Mômo (CNRS éditions, 2022); Ruptures écocritiques, à l’avant-garde (revue ELFE, décembre 2022). 

Petitjean AMarie (Cergy Paris Université / UMR 9022-Héritages / IUF)

AMarie PETITJEAN is Professor of French literature and creative writing at CY Cergy Paris Université, she is head of the programs in creative writing, and associate director of the research unit UMR Héritages (CNRS/Ministère de la culture/CYU). She is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France for the Innovation chair, under the program "Recyclerie du patrimoine pour les écritures de demain – livre, scène, écrans." Her praxeological and theoretical work focuses on creative writing in the international programs and on the epistemology of research creation in literature, regardless of media. She published notably La recherche-création littéraire, Peter Lang, 2021 and La Littérature par l’expérience de la création. Théories et enjeux, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2023. 

Song Qinghe (UMR 9022-Héritages / UMR 8043–IFRAE)

Qinghe SONG is Ph.D. student in research creation under teh supervision of Professor Sylvie Brodziak (UMR 9022–Héritages, CY) and Professor Zhe JI (UMR 8043–IFRAE, Inalco). The title of his thesis is "Sur les traces du moine pèlerin Xuanzang: Pratique géopoétique et écriture filmique de la mémoire et de l’Histoire dans l’espace de la Chine d’aujourd’hui." A former student at the ENSAPC, he has a Higher Education National Diploma in Plastic Expression (DNSEP). He is an image and sound creator.

Steven Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Steven SUTCLIFFE is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in the study of ‘alternative’ and ‘post-Christian’ religiosity in late modernity and is author of Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (2003) and co-editor (with Ingvild Sælid Gilhus) of New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion (2014) and (with Carole Cusack) of The Problem of Invented Religions (2016).